Monday, December 1, 2008

A Sluice

This is a sluice located outside the entrance of Natural Bridge Caverns in New Braunfels, Texas. It's a replica built to attract tourists to "pan for gold" but I thought it made for an interesting photograph nonetheless.

Title: "Sluice"


Camera / Lens: Canon 40D / Canon 50mm f/1.4 prime
Post-processing: Photoshop CS3 > Duplicate Background layer > Topaz Adjust "Spicify" plugin > High Pass Sharpening > Curves Adjustment Layer to increase contrast > Levels Adjustment Layer to set black and white points > Merge Visable to New Layer > Red Paw Media "Beautifier" plugin @ 45% opacity and with a layer mask to isolate the effect to certain areas of the photograph
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6 comments:

  1. Larry J. PatrickDecember 1, 2008 at 8:27 AM

    Barry,

    As my grandson would say: "cool." Very nicely done. I might consider making the edges a little darker so that the water fall will pop out a little more. Regardless what you do with this one, I really like it.

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  2. Barry ArmerDecember 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM

    Thanks Patrick! Glad you like it!

    Cheers!
    Barry

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  3. AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 1:18 PM

    Nice! I like this too. I like the vertical orientation and the zig zagging and the colorful water.

    Cindi

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  4. Barry ArmerDecember 1, 2008 at 1:23 PM

    Thanks Cindi!

    I hope you start your own blog soon so you can lose that "Anonymous" tag! :-)

    Cheers!
    Barry

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  5. LarryDecember 2, 2008 at 5:02 AM

    Great shot. Nice use of the brown, blue, and green color triad and great repetion of space shapes in the sluice sides.

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  6. Barry ArmerDecember 2, 2008 at 7:00 AM

    Thanks Larry!

    I hadn't even really noticed the triad. Thanks for pointing it out!

    Cheers!
    Barry

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